New Tuesday Teleconference Topic:

Kabbalistic Symbolism & the Tarot of the Spiritis an open-endy teleconference that reads and discusses the
works of Gareth Knight and Pamela Eakins works about the Tree of
Life and tarot. Enquire about where we are in this project if you
wish to join us.
Teleconference calls are gratis. Sessions every Tuesday 7-9 PM
(GMT 12-2 AM Wednesday) No fees or tuition. Drop-ins welcome. If new
or interested call Paul for orientation anytime [number on top of
page].
Join the conversation to hear what we're reading and discussing.

Our Tuesday evening, 7 PM to 9 PM Eastern Standard Time,
teleconference tarot discussion group which meets weekly and without
obligations or fees, continues an open ended intensive the Tarot of
the Spirit and the Tree of Life.

Each
week we will also discuss a tarot card taken from the Tarot of
the Spirit. We each individually select at random a card at the
beginning of our study time. Then, during our conversation about the
text after we each discuss the lesson in light of the card we chose,
as it relates to the text and images themes of the reading.

Altogether the purpose of these conversations about the book and
tarot card is to explore
innovative ways of using the card's significances for our
understanding of
prophecy and soothsaying, self-knowledge and ageless wisdom.

As usual for the Tuesday evening classes there are no fees or
commitments. People are welcome to call in – and over time will
become acclimated to the discussion and conversation of the group.
We are a peer led group rather than a directive study class. This group is
beginning in February 2018 and will continue studying the material in
an open-ended fashion until we feel that we have completed our task.

Enrique Enriquez and I last month discussed how his tarot
practice developed into his current pastime of playing with the
letters of languages in his notebooks, more from a visual point of view than from a
semantic. The results are published here and are free for anyone
to read and ponder. Enjoy!

Pip Trump Club Records

The Pip Trump Club is a
private
Facebook group devoted to metaphoric readings of a Pip and Trump
card in the Marseille style tradition. About twice a week a member
selects a pair of cards, usually one Trump and one Pip for
collective interpretation. Most contributions go unremarked.
Generally the group offers readings of the pair using a variety of
imaginative techniques, many inspired by the poetic surrealist tarot
interpretations of Enrique Enriquez.

One may characterize these interpretations loosely as
conceptualist tarot readings: where the cards are read anew each
time as potential performance. Each reader follows their own lights
and sometimes discussions and cumulative riffs follow and flow
between discussants.

Hand Reading

The Art and Science of Hand Reading: Classical Methods for
Self-Discovery through Palmistry by Ellen Goldberg, Dorian
Bergen (Destiny Books) In this comprehensive guide to hand reading,
based on Ellen Goldberg’s 40 years of teaching palmistry and the
Western Mystery tradition, the authors make the powerful insights of
the hand accessible in an inviting and user-friendly manner. The
book presents the character traits and personality archetypes
associated with each of the seven mounts of the palm and shows how
to determine which are most influential in the nature of the
individual. The mount archetypes reveal the lifestyle, love, sex,
and marriage preferences; the best career choices; and the unique
strengths and weaknesses for each person. The book also examines
other factors that enhance the qualities revealed by the mount
types, including the flexibility of the hand, texture of the skin,
and the shapes of the fingers, fingertips, and nails. The meaning of
each major and minor line is described in detail as well as the
influence the person’s own mind has in healing defects and obstacles
found on their lines. The authors also provide accurate timing
guides for each line, making it possible to locate specific events
and to see how your lines change over time.

Palmistry is a science and a universal language. The hand tells a
story about your talents, relationships, health, and how you feel
about yourself. It reveals periods of ease or challenge in your
life, and it speaks about your weaknesses and the traits you need to
develop. As you change, so do your hands, reflecting the progress
you have made.

Presenting the hand as a guide to self-fulfillment, The Art and
Science of Hand Reading incorporates correspondences to other
mystical sciences such as astrology, Kabbalah, the Hermetic
teachings, and archetypal psychology. It also includes practical
examples and more than 600 illustrations to show how to integrate
the meanings of each part of the hand to form a complete picture of
your inner psychology and your ever-changing destiny.

You may contact pnagy(at)tarothermeneutics.com if you have any
questions about the class.

The Tuesday night teleconference is open to all who wish to
participate assuming you want to follow the guidelines of the group
which is no more than common courtesy and a willingness to let
everyone have their voice about matters under discussion. The
teleconferences are more a conversation among friends and does not have
the directive intensity of a class. The teleconferences are designed
for people who read the tarot avocationally and/or professionally.
Besides the material read and discussed, we consult the cards about
questions arising during our conversation.

These teleconferences are offered gratis and there are no fees
attached or commitments exacted from participants. People are
welcome to drop in at any time during the conversation and may
address the issues under discussion.

Future topics for Tuesday night teleconference are always open
for discussion, in consensus amongst participants.

I have an idea toward exploring the deep structure of the tarot
via a close reading of Carl Jung’s
Psychological Types. Because Jung uses classical types to delineate personality
configurations, his discussion may also profoundly address deeper
issues of philosophical attitude, and for tarot readers the deep
structure of tarot cards, numerology, and iconology. The purpose of
this reading then is not to make tarot an instrument of analytic
psychology, but rather see how the fundamental ideas shape the
universal significance of tarot as an oracle.

Selective readings from William James, Henry Bergson, among
others may be included in an ad hoc way. We may also consider some
of the classical philosophers who embodied the types and provided
early accounts of contemplative experience and the human condition.
This would include Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle,
Plotinus, and Proclus. To the degree we tackle these foundational
thinkers of the Western tradition we will also constantly refer to
tarot reading techniques as fundamental to our dialogue with self
and other, knowledge and freedom.

Past classes interviews,
reviews, and initiatives.

Please Note download MP-3 recording. Do
not listen to them on-line as live-streaming as this creates great expense in file
data transfer rates that I pay for. Such inordinate expense will cause me to have to shut this
website site down. I have disabled live streaming. You may download
the file as is and then add '3' to the file extension to activate it
on your computer.

Listen to Marcus Katz discuss his published
Journal,
After the Angel.
Podcast Broadcast
July 11, 2011 on Carolina Book Beat.

After The Angel: An Account of the Abramelin Operation
by Marcus Katz M.A.
with a preface by Lon Milo Duquette
(Forge Press) The Abramelin Operation, a mysterious 15th century manuscript,
promises nothing less than to give the successful practitioner
of its instructions the knowledge and conversation of their
personal Holy Guardian Angel. Following a six-month ordeal of
intense practices, the ritual is also said to give the Operant
magical powers, control of demonic forces and the use of the
infamous magical squares and talismans whose abuse would
otherwise cause insanity or dire spiritual consequences. In this
landmark publishing event of the western esoteric tradition, the
inner workings of its most profound and demanding spiritual
ritual are fully revealed. Join modern magician Marcus Katz in a
timeless journey to complete the 177 days of intense magick
whilst living within a contemporary life. Find out more at
http://www.aftertheangel.com.

I am developing classes to teach this tarot hermeneutics approach
to learning about the tarot. If you see any that spark your
curiosity let me know as only the classes that attract some critical
mass of inquirers are likely to be taught.

Rev. Paul Nagy, Spiritual Friendship and
Tarot Consultations by appointment in person, by phone or on
Internet. Contact info

Welcome

This website is new and is under development.
Below is the general scope of services that are offered. Feel free
to contact Paul (at) wordtrade.com if you are interested in a
reading or are inquiring about a teleconference class. Many of
hyperlinks are not now working but will be soon as content is
developed for this site.

Paul Nagy has been reading tarot for well over 40 years. He is
an ordained minister who has a spiritual friendship ministry.
Spiritual friendship is the mutual practice of conversation
to clarify who we are and what we want in life. It is a form of
collegial self-inquiry as a quest for spiritual roots and coming to
balanced relationships with our self, our friends, family and
acquaintances. Our business and professional life, and our
ideals, our creative pursuits and ultimate concerns are also
addressed.

Tarot Readings

Paul uses tarot for short term and issue oriented questions. It
is a simple fee for service enterprise that usually helps to clarify
and reframe issues in someone's life.

These tarot readings are for fun and entertainment, though the
card symbols can bring up any number of profound life issues.

Spiritual Friendship

Spiritual Friendship is a sacred relationship. It is a unique
possibility between friends oriented toward the divine that is not easy to
characterize.

Spiritual Friendship can be described as a mutually agreed
upon relationship where both client and minister pay attention to the mysteries of life and, in intimate, conversation
explore what
emerges.

Formally there is usually a contract that stipulates minimum time
and resource commitments. Paul works with many forms of prayer,
meditation, poetry, journaling, arts as well as periodic
conversations.

In his ministry Paul requires a small stipend in addition to a
volunteer service commitment by the client to some community
organization of their choice.

Paul's style of ministry is nondenominational. Because of his
diverse religious experience and background Paul is quite likely to
be able to work within your own spiritual tradition,
or be able to give you a good referral.

Tarot Classes for the Beginner

There are many superb beginning tarot classes and opportunities.
Paul occasionally offers beginning classes. However he does suggest
some books and some other websites for beginning students.

Tarot Services for Tarot Professionals

Paul is dedicated to serving the community of tarot readers to
better develop their reading skills. Paul believes that all levels
of readers can mutually empower and enrich one another by sharing card meanings and other exercises with one another. The following topics represent
current projects in development.

Fees are kept to a minimum in order to encourage wide participation.
Because we follow a collegial model, the purpose is to learn from one
another. Scholarships are available. Though most of these
courses are for people who have a general working knowledge of
tarot, anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of tarot can benefit and
profit by participation.

When reading the tarot cards, each card carries with it an
ethical implication that may or may not be appropriate to a
particular reading. One can say that each card has a prohibitive and
beneficial ethical dimension. The prohibitive ethical dimension is
what one is forbidden to do because it causes self or other harm.
The beneficial ethical dimension suggests positive steps to enhance
the general good of self and others. Ambiguities and conflicts can
easily arise as the cards are laid out.

There is a level of ethics for professional and or proficient tarot readers as
practice guidelines and a more general stipulation of ethics
for the practice of hobbyist tarot readers. These guidelines should
be clearly stated for clients to consult.
See my discussion and
personal professional code, and
proposed classes.

Teleconferences and Workshops

The development of tarot hermeneutics happens through the
organization of teleconferences and website chats. Also
interpersonal workshops and retreats are organized and developed as
the need arises. Some current projects are listed below:

Meditations on the Tarot by Anonymous is a weekly
teleconference, on Wednesdays from 10 AM to 12 noon. The
teleconference is open to anyone who has the time and
inclination to study this important book of Christian
Hermeticism.
See here for more
about author. There are no fees
for this study at this time.

Workshops in Tarot Interpretation

Tarot hermeneutics is a unique analytic and synthetic
practice of developing tarot reading skills. After learning the
basic meaning of tarot cards one can begin deductively applying
tarot card meanings to various sacred and literary texts as a
means of exercising the symbolic imagination. Eventually
inductive styles are introduced to the study of the texts and
the card meanings.

Various workshops are offered to introduce this approach to
understanding and developing tarot reading skills.

Sacred Tarot Interpretation

Sacred texts from various religious traditions are studied
using the tarot cards as a grid for understanding the various
levels of meaning in the texts and how this reflects on the
nature of tarot interpretation generally.

Paul and some others are in an ongoing Study of the Gospel
According to John as it relates to the development of tarot
meanings for understanding the gospel itself and how the Gospel
throws light on the esoteric dimensions of the major
and minor Arcana of the tarot.

Literary texts are used in the application of the tarot
layout in card meanings to novels and short stories from any
genre as a way of developing objective skills in tarot
interpretation and application. Workshops usually use short
texts as a means of demonstration of how the technique can be
developed.

Paul encourages the use of complete texts for an enriched
experience of developing inter-reflexive tarot interpretations.
It also helps to work on texts in teams so that various ways
that people approach the card meanings can help all participants
to further their own understanding.

Premium Tarot Services for Professionals

Beside my own efforts reflected here, I recommend these tarot
readers, schools and websites and groups. In each case these are
readers or groups I know and have worked with personally and, in
some cases, professionally. They represent mainstream and cutting
edge tarot practice and theory. Tarot is much too rich and diverse
these days to be easily summed up in a simple book or in one or
another approach, no matter how touted as comprehensive.

Whether you decide to participate in these projects or not, I
encourage you to study tarot as a means of engaging in the quest for
self-knowledge through symbolic inquiry.

In many ways we, as a society addicted to technological notions,
have lost the ability to understand the primacy of symbols, not only
as a bridge to the unconscious but as a beacon of the multivalent
consciousness: the means and end of personal and collective creative
freedom.

The tarot is one way by which one may enter into this dynamic
world of spiritual and personal discovery. There are other ways. One
should follow the inclinations of one's heart. I hope you find
your way into the thrall of this mystery with grace and serenity,
joy and beauty. Blessed be.